#kurdistan

[orangeblossombitch]

☆ قتل الزهور لن يؤخر الربيع ☆

'Killing the flowers will not delay spring'

Nerjiz and Iris Haynei for the steadfast people of Kurdistan and Palestine, may your mountains, plains and shores be freed soon. 🧡💜🧡

[standwithdaanes]

from the Rojava Information Center's Instagram: “RIC interviewed civilians taking up the call for general mobilization.”

For anyone seeing this who doesn't know the context: Syria is gearing up to do a genocide on, amongst other groups, the Kurdish people, from whom the Rojava Revolution was born in North East Syria. This revolution has been working to create a grassroots democratic alternative to capitalism and the nation-state which centers women, youth, ethnic minorities, & nature, in the form of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (DAANES).

The city of Kobanê is currently under siege, the supply of bread and fuel has been cut off, and they are running out of medicine. There are reports of massacres of civilians including children being done by groups aligned with the Syrian government. Several babies have died due to freezing temperatures because they've cut access to power. And this is just in the past week or so.

Here's an article that explains the political context behind these attacks, & this post has a ton of links on Rojava, DAANES, the ideology behind the revolution, etc. to educate yourself. If you have money for humanitarian aid, donate to the Kurdish Red Crescent here. February 1 is World Rojava Solidarity Day so if you can, respond to the Global Call for Solidarity and organize a protest in defense of Rojava.

At the very least, raise awareness as much as you can, however you can. Jin, Jîyan, Azadi 💛❤️💚

[bobemajses]

Challah cover from Volhynia, western Ukraine (left) and from Kurdistan (right), 19th century

[kurdishrecognition]

northern kurdistan, 2004 by scott wallace

[soxiyy]

From Levantine_gay on insta

[illiliiliil]

Kurdistan brings a deep sense of tranquility.

[r0tt3n-b0dy]

if you support “free palestine” then you should support “free kurdistan”, the kurdish people have stood with palestine since day one cause these are the people who know the true meaning of being forced out of your home, but now that kurds themselves are facing the same problem again and their dark history is repeating itself, no one sides with them and stays silent??

shame on the people who decide to not speak up despite seeing what’s happening in kurdistan rojava and seeing how wrong it is